Biography
Kenneth Anger
Sprüth Magers
Born 1927, Santa Monica, CA Lives in Santa Monica
Education / Ausbildung
Beverly Hills High School Cinema Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Awards, Fellowships and Grants / Auszeichnungen, Preise und Stipendien
2006 Outfest Achievement Award 2002 Independent/Experimental Film and Video Award 2001 The Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award (Award for lifetime achievement) 2000 Spirit of Silver Lake Award 1996 Maya Deren Independent Film and Video Artists Award
Solo Exhibitions / Einzelausstellungen
2015 Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, Max Linder Panorama, Paris
2014 The Films of Kenneth Anger, Ace Hotel, Los Angeles
2013 Icons, Sprüth Magers, London Icons, Sprüth Magers, Berlin A Weekend of Anger: The Films of Kenneth Anger, ICA, London
2012 Kenneth Anger, Galerie du Jour Agnés B, Paris
2011 Icons, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles An Evening of Kenneth Anger Films, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
2010 Invocation of My Demon Brother, Sprüth Magers, London
2009 Kenneth Anger, MoMA PS1, Long Island City Kenneth Anger: Restored Prints, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Do What Thou Wilt: Kenneth Anger on Aleister Crowley and the Occult, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2007 Kenneth Anger: Eaux d'Artifice, Kunsthalle Graz, Graz
2006 Pleased to meet you, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen
2005 Lucifer and the Honeybee – Kenneth Anger, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
2004 Invocation of My Demon Brother, Modern Art, London
2003 Kenneth Anger: Selected Films, CUBITT Gallery and Studios, London
Group Exhibitions / Gruppenausstellungen Sprüth Magers 2020 Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography, Barbican Centre, London; Gropius Bau, Berlin
2019 The Foundation of the Museum: MOCA’s Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Invocation of My Demon Brother (screening), Slash Art, San Francisco
2017 Future – Film Programme Selected by Beatrice Gibson, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London SPIRITUALIZED: As Above, So Below (from Modernity to Now), IMMA, Dublin Kult!, Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen From the Collection: 1960–1969, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2015 Magic Lantern Circle, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum, New York Unlimited, Basel Station to Station, Barbican Centre, London Under Pressure: Contemporary Prints from the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
2014 The Collective, House of St. Barnabas, London
2013 La Fin de la Nuit, Novelles Vagues, Palais de Tokyo, Paris Station to Station: A Nomadic Happening, with stops in New York; Pittsburgh, PA; Minneapolis/St. Paul, MI; Chicago; Kansas City, MO; Santa Fe, NM; Winslow, AZ; Barstow, CA; Los Angeles; and Oakland/San Francisco
2011 Seeing is Believing, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2010 How Many Billboards? Art in Stead, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, West Hollywood
2009 Source Codes, Sprüth Magers, Berlin The 2nd Athens Biennale, Athens The Porn Identity, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna ROCK MY RELIGION, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca
2008 traces du sacré, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Haus der Kunst, Munich Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1958-1968, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
2007 25 FPS 2007, 25 FPS, Zagreb BODYPOLITICX, Witte de With, Rotterdam Before (Plus ou moins), Palais de Tokyo, Paris Kunst und Film1: Touching Politics, Kino Kunstmuseum, Bern THAT'S NOT ENTERTAINMENT, CCCB, Barcelona
2006 Das Achte Feld/The Eighth Square, Museum Ludwig, Cologne A rabbit as king of the ghosts, Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery, New York INTO ME/OUT OF ME, MoMA PS1, Long Island City; Kunst-Werke, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome Good Vibrations, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena EMAF 2006, European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck̈ LOS ANGELES 1955–1985: Birth of an Art Capital, Centre Pompidou, Paris Sprüth Magers Whitney Biennial 2006: Day or Night, Whitney Museum, New York William Blake & Sons, Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo Im Anfang war das Wort, Haus der Kunst, Munich
2005 Blake & Sons, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork Afterall // Charles Esche, apexart, New York The Lush and the Glamorous, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Lucifer and the Honeybee–Kenneth Anger, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
2002 On General Release, Norwich Gallery, Norwich
2001 SITE Santa Fe Biennial 2001, SITE, Santa Fe
1983 Film (Winter 1983): Films of the 60’s, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Filmography / Filmografie
2010–2012 Airship (3 parts, series) 2010 Missoni 2008 Uniform Attraction Foreplay Ich Will! 2007 My Surfing Lucifer 2007 I’ll Be Watching You 2005 Mouse Heaven 2004 Patriotic Penis Anger Sees Red Mouse Heaven Elliott's Suicide 2000 Don't Smoke That Cigarette Hollywood Babylon 1995–2002 The Man We Want To Hang 1980 Lucifer Rising (dritte, uberarbeitetë Version) 1979 Rabbit's Moon (shorter 'jump printed' version) 1970 Lucifer Rising (zweite Version) 1969 Invocation of My Demon Brother 1966 Lucifer Rising (verschollene Version) 1965 Kustom Kar Kommandoes 1963 Scorpio Rising
1961 Historie d'O 1955 Thelema Abbey 1954 Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome 1953 Le Jeune Homme et la Mort Eaux d'Artifice 1952 Maldoror 1950–1972 Rabbit's Moon 1949 The Love That Whirls Puce Moment 1947 Fireworks 1945 Drastic Demise 1944 Escape Episode 1943 The Nest 1942 Prisoner of Mars 1941–1942 Tinsel Tree 1941 Who Has Been Rocking My Dreamboat
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